Judge refuses to alter veteran's sentence in fatal crash

Updated 10:41 am, Saturday, February 20, 2016

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge is refusing to modify the sentence he imposed to a war veteran in a fatal 2013 crash, including provisions that the defendant carry the victim's picture and place flowers on her grave each year.

Thirty-four-year-old Jennifer Sloan, of Cresson, an Iraq war veteran, was sentenced in Blair County in December to 2 1/2 to five years in prison in the April 2013 death of 58-year-old Connie Naylor, of Dysart.

The (Altoona) Mirror (http://bit.ly/1PNeqNy ) reports the defense attorney challenged the length of the prison sentence. He called the provisions about the victim's photo and placing flowers on her grave "disproportionate to the crime."